preception

English

Etymology

Latin praeceptio.

Noun

preception (plural preceptions)

1. A precept.
   • 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:

     Their Leo calls these words a Preception

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “preception”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• perception